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Sainsbury's 'in real trouble' with website offline for days
Sainsbury's website meltdown could lose it thousands of online customers in the next few months, The Grocer has learnt.The retailer claimed that a computer fault crashed its home delivery website, which has been suspended since Tuesday...
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Driving home health message
Consumers are finally waking up to the health benefits of frozen food - with a little help from the manufacturers. It's about time too, says Anne Murphy, general manager of Birds Eye UK and deputy chairman of the Food and Drink Federation's ...
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EU quotas could push up prices
Farms currently face a range of concerns that will affect the frozen meat and poultry market. The biggest of these is the huge rise in animal feed prices, with a knock-on effect on shelf price. But it's the impact of poultry import...
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Frozen fish sales go swimmingly
"A positive way to bring in new consumers" is how judges of The Grocer Gold Awards rated Aldi's own-label frozen fish range, The Fishmonger. Thanks to a combination of health, affordability and convenience, frozen fish is attracting new...
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No such thing as a quick retail fix
M&S and Asda have both embarked on major new ranging and sourcing strategies. But will they work?This month I thought I'd look at a couple of The Grocer headlines from the past few weeks that appear, at face value, to have the ability to...
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Public warms to frozen food
After years of little or no growth, the frozen food sector is enjoying a strong growth spurt. In the year to February 24, sales jumped 4.2% to £4.7bn, according to the latest data from TNS. Some of this can be accounted for by higher...
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Store visit Foo.go
Foo.go, the quirky name of the convenience food supplier and retailer, actually means 'good food'. Owner and founder George Robinson, who says he is "massively" dyslexic and couldn't spell his own name until the age of 12, named the company...
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Improving the image of frozen
In 1948, when frozen food first arrived on these shores, only the most affluent could afford it. Sixty years later, manufacturers are doing everything they can to combat shoppers' perception of frozen food being low-quality. Prior...
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Further reading
If you want to find out more about the frozen food sector, there are myriad websites, reports and analyses worth checking out. A handful of the best include:n The British Frozen Food Federation website is as good a place as any to start...
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Loch Fyne reaches south with Simson's
Loch Fyne Oysters has secured its first southern foothold with the purchase of Simson's Fisheries.The company, which funded the 100% share-purchase acquisition with a package from Bank of Scotland Corporate, plans to become more active,...
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Owner George Robinson
After leaving art and design college, Robinson worked for 12 years in the manufacturing sector, setting up a juices and smoothies company called Liquid Assets. The company was one of the first to supply sandwich chain Pret A Manger and also sold...
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He may be retired, but he's not retiring
Sir Ken Morrison may have finally retired from the supermarket chain he built, but at the annual shareholder meeting earlier this month he showed he's not going to sink into oblivion. Couched in his typical jocular style, the feisty...
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Sainsbury's trials high-welfare milk
A new 'ethical' milk sourced from higher-welfare cows and packaged in a new recyclable pouch is being trialled in 35 Sainsbury's stores.Developed by the Contented Cow Company, Freedom Food-certified Precious Milk went into stores last...
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a Licence to print money?
Supermarket shelves are groaning under the weight of Antony Worrall Thompson. That's not a slur on the television chef's size or shape, but a nod to the success of his commercial empire. His new range of ready meals will extend to well over 100...
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Ready meals steadying
The frozen ready meals category needs to work harder than any other to stay ahead. And after two years of heavy decline, the sector appears to be bucking up its ideas. Sales in 2007 were £612m, a slide of 3% compared with 2006. But that's...
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Research Notes
Frozen foods are back: value and volume both grew in 2007, bucking several years of decline. Value growth may be due to price increases prompted by rising market prices, while there has also been further premiumisation within parts of the...
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What the papers said
?Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has signed a £100,000 deal to appear in a new TV advert for Morrisons. The tongue-in-cheek advert will spoof Hammond's near-death car crash and will feature him taking a smash in a supermarket trolley,...
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Price Survey
They are separated by the faintest of margins, but Asda has narrowly undercut Morrisons to record its fourth week as cheapest retailer. Asda's £52.32 basket was just 9p less than Morrisons' total, although they did not match as many...